Is this a new series?
Is this the pilot for a new series?
shareI think it's the first in a series of new movies like what Hallmark has been doing lately.
shareThat would be fine with me. I don't know that I'd really care for a new series that was essentially a remake of "Diagnosis Murder."
shareJust like Diagnosis Murder, the premise is too thin to make many convincing tie-ins. Recall that at the hospital they had to make doctors drop all their rounds and patients for a few days so they could go "undercover" working as bartenders or masseuses. Something they just happened to have done working through med school.
So now they will try to stretch every plot into his classroom.
What they don't seem to realize is that you don't need any tie at all. What was Miss Marple's hook to bring in mysteries? Didn't need one. Just heard about a crime and started talking to whoever she was with.
I don't know that I'd really care for a new series that was essentially a remake of "Diagnosis Murder."
I'm with you on that. The possibility of a TV series would concern me because, with the Van Dykes, people would keep confusing it with Diagnosis Murder. They would also probably see it as a desperate attempt to remake the show.
I was changing channels the other day when I came across Murder 101 with the Van Dykes. I was really confused because I thought it was Diagnosis Murder, which I really loved. Then my aunt told me it was a new series and Van Dyke's son doesn't play his son on this show, but he plays a cop instead. Is this the beginning of a new series? From what I saw of it, I wasn't as crazy about it as DM. It's too confusing because it's actually just like DM. Only Dick Van Dyke is a professor instead of a doctor. And I'd love to know how the drs. on DM managed to just leave their patients to go sleuthing? Did they manage to take criminal courses while they were all in med school? And how do you just get up and leave your patients?
sharewell i am still dying to see this because i'm in the UK and i agree with the point that i wouldn't want to see a rehash of DM because it would detract somewhat from the fun of DM. with the query about just upping and leaving the patients to go sleuthing, i remember that in the earlier series Jack always used to tell Mark and Norman that he had someone covering him while he did it, maybe they got fed up of just keep saying that line... or maybe they ran out of names to make up
shareIt would be awesome if it were a new series, but it's January 1, 2007 and I haven't heard anything about it (except that it's play on the Hallmark channel this weekend) so I guess it wasn't well enough received.
shareI just checked and it is coming on again on Jan 14 at 4 Central Standard Time. I think it is an on-going thing. I did watch DM but not regularly so the switch from Doc to prof does not bother me, but I like the new premise with DVDyke being older and absent mindeded. I thought it was kinda funny. I hope the scripts do get better. But i will watch ANYTHING DVDyke is in.
Nina
It is a series of TV movies not weekly series. But when you think about it, it is pretty much a rip off of DM.(Dick Van Dyke solving murders). Why can't Dick Van Dyke make another comedy series or have atleast a supporting role in something else. Murder 101 can be fun to watch, but Van Dyke deserves something better than mediocre TV movies. And if he had to do these, why not make some Diagnosis Murder reunion movies instead? Thats what Perry Mason, and Rockford, and Columbo did. There were like 25 Perry Mason movies in the 80's and 90's! Why can't Dick Van Dyke and DM do that? It would be fun to see that cast reunited. They could even base the movies off the books if they wanted to. The books are even better than the TV show was.
shareYou have to remember Dick Van Dyke is 81, and still going strong. But he probably wants a series that he can shoot on a less demanding schedule, hence the more informal commitment to further episodes.
sharei thought it was diognoses murder too! when i saw it was gonna air, i didn't. but as i started watching it, i thought it was a new diagnoses murder movie. it's funny that his son isn't playing his son here, couse they talk just the same and if you don't look at the screen you don't know who it is.
can i just remind some cats here that it actually are diagnoses murder movies made after the series. (like four years before this).
losing your love,
i'm getting ready,
after getting a hint,
of what the future may bring,
thanks to todays meloncholy feeling,
when you won't show up tomorrow, might ease the misery being,
of what i thought was just a one time thing,
when you wasn't here last week, seemed to be the upcoming deal,
i can see it coming through,
and there will be weekends of empty without you,
plans i had,
it's all been turned to ash,
i tell you before you go, if i don't get the chance tomorrow,
you came along, when the sun went gone,
though now it appears you've moved on, and i lost you also.